I have several github repos that I'm trying to publish as github pages. I've created gh-pages branches for them and their repo's say that the pages exist, but when I go to the links they provide I find a 404 page.
I know that github pages are finicky and return this error if the home page isn't called "index.html" and I suspect that the problem is related to that, but I'm not sure how to fix it. All of the projects in question are rails apps with homepages in the views/home called "index.html.erb" and routes designating those pages as root. Do I need to rename those pages or there some other way to fix this?
Github pages is used only for static websites, you cannot host applications on it.
You wrote that you hosted *.html.erb files, which means you are trying to setup a rails application on it.
You can use static website builders to create Github sites, or code them on your own.
#bukk530 is absolutely correct.
Additionally, it would be worth noting that GitHub Pages does support hosting Jekyll sites, but nothing else. Static HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Jekyll.
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I am just about to launch an Azure Web App (aka Azure Web Sites) and have a quick question.
I've noticed there was a pretty significant lag on using the site when I publish my site from Visual Studio. Each page(/controller?) appeared to be compiling only when it was first accessed so it made the site feel very slow at least for a few minutes. I want to avoid that so I am used the "Precompile" option when I Build and Publish from VS. This seems to work and, although there is still some initial lag after publishing, it's much better than it was.
My question is this: Because this is a new site and we are constantly adding functionality and fixing bugs, I would like to have a section on my main _Layout page which I can quickly edit with a notification (ie. "Site will go down in 15 minutes for maintenance."). The problem is that I don't want to go through the whole Build/Publish process to get that content up to the site. Is there a way that I can include some file / content (page_alert.html) in my _Layout.cshtml page that can be edited in something like the Azure App Service Editor? Because of the precompiled nature of the site, all my .cshtml files now just say "This is a marker file generated by the precompilation tool, and should not be deleted!" in the App Service Editor.
Thanks!
When you choose the Precompile option, you can also check 'Allow precompiled site to be updatable'. That will then allow you to update individual .cshtml files which will be compiled on the fly, while the rest is still precompiled.
See doc for details.
I think I found a solution that will work from another SO posting.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/14634578/1359788
#Html.Raw(File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/content/somefile.html")))
I can edit that somefile.html in the App Service Editor and it works
I am using umbraco 7.1.3.
My requirement is to create another sub-domain in main site dynamically as per user request.For example I have implemented umbraco cms for my site "ww.xyz.com" & I am updating content through umbraco login. Now I want to create sub-domains for different clients as per their request... like : "www.xyz.com/client1", "www.xyz.com/client2" and so on...
Now all sub-domain site should have it's own umbraco framework, so client-site (sub-domain owner) can login and update their information respectively.
To achieve this requirement I implemented following steps...
First I register a umbraco website in IIS and configure it, and that worked properly.
Then I register another umbraco website in IIS and configured it, and that also worked properly.
Now to implement sub-domain logic...
I simply copied 2nd website's folder in to first website folder. Then convert that folder to application through IIS.
As per my expectation this should work, As I have already done the same in asp.net and it worked.
But with umbraco I am facing issue like "Invalid key value".
I think the issue is related to some umbraco configuration, but I am not able to figure it out.
Thanks & Regards
A bit of an open door, but since I don't see it mentioned in any of the comments and it's a bit hidden away in Umbraco 8. Have you tried setting the urls in the Cultures and Hostnames section?
Note: you get to this by going to "Content", in the content tree right click on your homepage and now you get several extra options which are normally hidden away with also the very useful Hostname and Cultures option which allows you to support multiple urls.
I have created a static website using Rails (no models, only a view and its corresponding controller). I want it to be deployed on Github Pages, i.e., typing this link on the browser and hitting Enter must show my static website: https://my-username.github.io.
How do I do it?
If you wish to deploy a static website to GitHub Pages without using Jekyll, you'll need to build the static content locally, and then push it to your GitHub repository with a .nojekyll file in the root so GitHub Pages does not try to run Jekyll on it.
More info at the GitHub Pages docs.
I hope I'm asking this question in the right place. I also asked on umbraco forum, but did not get any response yet.
I'm having problem with deploying my Umbraco 5 website to external hosting.
On local machine, I used Umbraco 5 template for VS2010, which works fine (although it's quite slow).
When I publish to live server I get 500 error.
So far, i've tried installing fresh copy of umbraco on hosting (works fine).
I copied config files in hive provider folder (in App_Data), to point umbraco to my hosting database. That does not throw any exceptions yet. Problem starts when I copy views and partial views over - umbraco then finds the template defined in database and tries to load that.
It's worth mentioning that I also copied my project.dll file into bin directory on the server - the reason for that is because I have added new controller which inherits from surfacecontroller (in /Controllers folder).
Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
Cheers
Sebastian
It is not any different than deploying a MVC3 website.
There are quite a few questions with exactly that signature here on so.
Visual studio even has a few tools to help you in the process.
The publish function is found right clicking the project in the solution explorer.
If you use the template for developing, you have a working umbraco solution locally right?
If that is the case, it is easier to just deploy / publish the entire site intead of copying bits into another umbraco solution.
Publish tool
When using that tool, remember that umbraco has quite a few config files etc. and they all need to be included. So it is probably the easiest to just export all files in the folders, by changing "which files to include" setting in publish tool. That will unfortunately include all your .cs files too, but later they can be filtered out of the publish process.
First make it work, then make it awesome :)
The same goes for compilation mode, i have found that release mode sometimes breaks things, so for now just keep it in debug mode.
Then later when you have it working, you can change to release mode for a small performance gain.
Stuff to remember
include all necessary files
change connectionstrings
copy databases
custom errors, you don't want your visitors to see YSOD's with your internal debugging info.
disable tracing and debugging!
After reading this, you should go on and look for other more elaborative resources too.
"umbraco then finds the template defined in database and tries to load that" is key point to me
whatever the version you follow the templates and doc types are the backbones of umbraco ( from you website I know that you are aware with above more then me.. but repeating.) I mean you have created new website but there are no relative Templates and Doctype yet you try to use them in views and subviews and that caused the problem.
To do that please create tempalte and doctype same as is in you staging site and this problem will be solved.
Even better kick-start you development with new site only and make replica of that after defining doc-type and templates to your staging.
I hope i can explain my point.
Thanks,
Jigar
I've had problems in the past deploying Umbraco 5 projects. When you deploy an Umbraco 5 website to a new server and before you switch the website on in IIS, navigate to \App_Data\ClientDependency and delete any XML files that are there. Next, navigate to \App_Data\Umbraco\HiveConfig and delete the ConfigurationCache-*.bin files.
Once you've done that, recycle your Application Pool and start your website.
Okay, so I have a couple of ASP.Net Mvc web applications that I would like to share a common master page, some css and js files across...
I tried creating a common repository for the files and then in my studio projects using the Add Existing... As Link... feature but, this doesn't appear to work...
When I try and debug the project I get an error stating the master page cannot be found. Which is because it doesn't physically exist in the location where I created the link...
Has anyone gotten this to work or perhaps have another suggestion on how to share these types of common files...
Thanks..!
If you're using a source control system like SVN, you could keep your master page in one repository and reference that repository with a svn:externals property in your project repositories.
You could then branch the master page if each project required a modification that the other did not, while still maintaining the ability to merge changes made in the original.
You won't be able to share master pages, but it's possible to share static resources like CSS files and Javascripts, but you wouldn't add them to your web application. You'd just reference them in your aspx files and provide their URL.
Where do these files reside? anywhere on the disc or in a folder of some other application?
i don't think it is a good idea because if you have a source control you might need to check in the application source code (including css and js files and masterpages) so someone else on an other machine can run (modify or update) it without problems